Posted by Richard Haut on February 27, 2004 at 10:57:28:In Reply to: Re: No Architectural Global Warming anymore??? posted by nothing matters and what if it did on February 27, 2004 at 10:31:14:
I repeat: the report came from the Pentagon, and concerns about global warming predate the statements (of whatever quality or irrelevance) of Al Gore (why does he matter anyway ? I wasn't aware that he was standing this time).
This is from a Press Release by the United States Embassy in Tokyo, and relates to the Tokyo Protocol:
"For the protocol to enter into force, ratifying governments must include developed countries accounting for at least 55 percent of that group's 1990 emissions of carbon dioxide -- the main greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. Russia's ratification would push the tally over the required 55 percent limit. The pending half-dozen or so other ratifications in mostly smaller countries in this group would not be sufficient in themselves to reach the 55-percent mark.
The United States and Australia, the release noted, are not parties to the protocol. The Bush administration withdrew the U.S. signature from the protocol, saying the accord's mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions would harm the U.S. economy. President Bush has set a goal of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent over the next 10 years while sustaining economic growth.
Joke Waller-Hunter, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change -- under which the protocol was adopted -- said that most developed countries have now ratified the treaty. "But these countries have only 10 more years to meet their Kyoto emissions targets -- and the evidence today is that most of them still have a great deal of work to do to reduce their greenhouse gases," she added."
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